by rss feed | Aug 8, 2024 | Anna Wexler, bioethics, Elon Musk, Neuralink, Neuro, News Feeds
Neuralink has had a rollercoaster ride in the last few years with many ups and downs. They just recently deployed a brain implant into a second clinical trial participant. So it’s a good time to update where things stand. This more general area of science is...
by rss feed | May 15, 2022 | neural stem cells, Neuro, News Feeds
Some people consider the brain to be equivalent to a living computer and in that sense it’s too bad that computers don’t have the equal of neural stem cells to help them fix themselves. Is the internet one big neural network-like web? There was a quake in...
by rss feed | Jan 20, 2022 | Aging, Altos Labs, anti-aging, Neuro, News Feeds
I wrote briefly a few months ago about Altos Labs. It’s a new kind of biotech institute that is focused on cellular reprogramming. My original piece was sparked in part by an article around the same time by Antonio Regalado over at MIT Tech Review. He provided...
by rss feed | Jan 24, 2021 | COVID-19, neural stem cells, Neuro, News Feeds, Single-cell, single-cell transcriptomics, Weekend Reads
Sometimes it seems like a theme spontaneously emerges in pubs that I want to read for a given week like the set of single-cell analysis papers but there are diverse, other items including a striking day-night brain stem cell cycle paper and an interesting piece on...
by rss feed | Jan 24, 2021 | COVID-19, neural stem cells, Neuro, News Feeds, Single-cell, single-cell transcriptomics, Weekend Reads
Sometimes it seems like a theme spontaneously emerges in pubs that I want to read for a given week like the set of single-cell analysis papers but there are diverse, other items including a striking day-night brain stem cell cycle paper and an interesting piece on...
by rss feed | Jan 7, 2021 | Aging, head transplant, head transplants, Neuro, News Feeds
Is a head transplant actually going to be an option for extending life or changing what it means to be human? What about brain transplants? Head transplant background Given the extreme nature of the idea of taking one person’s head and putting it on...
